can not find grub.conf

[Paul Howarth]

Charles Li wrote:
> Hi,
> I did an upgrade with yum for my kernel, and now I can
> not find grub.conf.  I did not check before the
> upgrade, so it might not be there before the upgrade.
> According to the ls -l command, the grup.conf is link
> to /boot/grub/grub.conf, but I do not see it under
> boot.  Also, if I issue vi /etc/grub.conf, it ask if I
> want to create a new file.  What is going on?  Please
> help.  Thanks.
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# ls -l /etc/grub.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 22 May  5 14:04 /etc/grub.conf
> -> ../boot/grub/grub.conf
> [root at localhost ~]# ls -la /boot
> total 3428
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    4096 May  5 18:07 .
> drwxr-xr-x  23 root root    4096 May  5 19:37 ..
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root   55445 Apr  7 19:33
> config-2.6.11-1.14_FC3
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  985168 May  5 18:07
> initrd-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.img
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  754309 Apr  7 19:33
> System.map-2.6.11-1.14_FC3
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1658853 Apr  7 19:33
> vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.14_FC3

If your system still boots properly, it's likely that you have a 
separate /boot partition and that for some reason it was not mounted 
when you did the yum update that installed the last kernel, and it's not 
mounted now. Can you post your /etc/fstab? What happens if you do:

# mount /boot

Paul.